Renee Nicole Good still had a pulse when EMTs finally reached her—after ICE agents blocked a doctor from helping and forced paramedics to abandon their ambulance and walk through the snow to get to her.
That’s according to newly released records from the Minneapolis police and fire departments, which reveal that when first responders finally pulled Good from her Honda SUV on January 7, she was unresponsive but not gone—she still had an irregular pulse.
She also was not necessarily shot in the head. She had two gunshot wounds on the right side of her chest, another on her left forearm and a possible fourth on the left side of her head.
The question now isn’t just whether ICE agents were justified in shooting Good—it’s whether she might have survived if federal agents hadn’t actively prevented people from helping her.
THE TIMELINE: According to a timeline put together by ABC News, Gunfire erupted at 9:37 a.m. For the next six minutes, Good remained slumped in her vehicle while ICE agents kept everyone away.
Video footage and eyewitness accounts paint a damning picture: A bystander who identified himself as a physician asked to check Good’s pulse. ICE agents ordered him to “back up.” When he told them he was a doctor, an agent responded: “I don’t care.”
The agents claimed they had their own medics and that EMS was on the way. But when firefighters finally arrived at 9:43 a.m.—more than six minutes after Good was shot—federal vehicles were blocking direct access to her. Paramedics reportedly had to leave their ambulance and walk through the snow to reach her.
By 9:45 a.m., firefighters had pulled Good from her car and carried her to the corner of Portland Avenue and 34th Street, where they began CPR. Seven minutes later, her body was loaded into an ambulance.
Good was formally pronounced dead at Hennepin County Medical Center at approximately 10:30 a.m.
WHY IT MATTERS: An irregular pulse means her heart was still beating. A physician was right there, ready to help. EMTs were on scene but couldn’t get to her because federal vehicles were in the way.
Those aren’t just procedural failures. Those are choices. Choices made by armed federal agents who prioritized “scene control” over a dying woman’s life.
BOTTOM LINE: Renee Nicole Good was an observer—someone who showed up to document what ICE was doing in her community. She was shot by federal agents. And then, while she still had a pulse, those same agents told a doctor “I don’t care” and made paramedics trudge through snow to reach her.
The Minneapolis community is living in what one eyewitness called “a state of terror and fear.” These newly released records make it clear why.